(Subscription required) Overcoming early hardships and a career dedicated to criminal defense work, Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Lynnette D. Brown is earning respect for her poise, legal acumen, and commitment to fairness after one year on the bench.

This month, the privacy board proposed substantially narrower privacy regulations, including deleting specific protections — like the example above — surrounding criminal justice, education, essential goods like food, and employment matters if they were made by automated decisions. 

The complaint filed on Monday in San Francisco federal court said the "large-scale reductions in force" that Trump ordered federal agency chiefs to implement on February 11 lacked Congressional approval, and violated the U.S. Constitution's separation of powers.

(Subscription required) The U.S. Supreme Court denied review Monday of a gun show promoter's petition seeking to reverse a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that resolved a lower court dispute and upheld California laws that ban sales of firearms, ammunition and precursor parts at shows on state-owned property.